The Holbrook news., November 28, 1919, Image 6

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CALLS FOR BIDS FOR CARE
AND SUPPLIES FOR INDI
GENTS OF NAVAJO
COUNTY
Notice ia hereby given: That
sealed proposals will be received
at the office of the Board of Su
pervisors of Navajo County, in
Holbrook. Arizona, until 2 o'clock
p. m., Tuesday, December 30th,
1919. for the furnishing of food,
lodging1, clothing, medieine, med
ical attendance, and other sup
plies, for indigents of the county
for the .year ending December
31st, 1920. Specifications there
for may be seen at the office of
said Board. All bids must be
accompanied by a copy of this
advertisement, and a certified
check for $100.00 as a guarantee
that bidder will enter into a con
tract for" the faithful perform
ance of the service. The sue
cessful bidder will be required to
give a good and sufficient bond
in such amount as the Board may
prescribe, to be approved by the
Board, conditioned upon the
faithful performance of the con
tract. The Board reserves the right
to aceept or reject part or all of
any or all bids, or to waive any
informalities in any bid. tt"
Bids will be opened by said
Board at its office in Holbrook,
Navajo county, Arizona, on Tues
day, December 30th, 1919, at 2
o'clock p. m., and thereafter
considered.
All bids must be sealed and ad
dressed "Clerk, Board of Super
visors" and marked. "Bids on
furnishing supplies to indi
gents." R. S. Teeple,
Clerk, of Board of Supervisors.
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NOTICE
Call for Bids for Printing and
Stationery
Notice is hereby given that
sealed proposals will be received
at the office of the Board of Su
pervisors of Navajo County, in
Holbrook, Arizona, until' 2
o'clock p. m. Tuesday, Decem
ber 30th. 1919, for the furnish
ing of printed blanks, books, sta
tionery, etc., for the year ending
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Endorsed Location
Drilling on Deeded Land
Low Capitalization
Drilling with Standard Rig
Large Acreage
MAIL ORDERS NOW TO-
December 31, 1920. Specifica
tions therefor may be seen at
the office of said Board.
All bid 3 must be accompanied
by a copy of thi3 advertisement,
and a certified check for One
Hundred dollars as a guarantee
that bidder will enter into a eon
tract for the faithful perform
ance of the service.
The successful bidder will be
required to give a good and suf-
ficent bond, in such amount as
the Board may prescribe, to be
approved by the Board, condi
tioned upon the faithful perform
ance of the contract.
The Board reserves the right
to accept or reject part or all of
any bid, or to waive any inform
alities in any bid.
Bids will be opened by said
Board at its office in Holbrook,
Arizona, on Tuesday. December
30th, .1919, at 2 o'clock p. m.,
and thereafter considered.
All bids must be sealed and
addressed: "Cleric, Board of
Supervisors," and marked "Bid
on Printing and Stationery."
- R. S. Teeple,'
Clerk, Board of Supervisors
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Ford Car for Sale Cheap-
Can be seen at Snowflake.
No place to keep it, reason
for selling. 1914 Model.
Write or see Hiram Sutcliffe,
Snowflake. nl4tf
For Sale Fine team, four-
year mares, 1600 lbs. Cly
desdale stock, at Ft. Valley.
9 miles northwest Flagstaff.
Address box 1183.
COMING DECEMBER 8TH
Dr. H. W. Swigert, Arizona's
Optometrist, will make a return
visit to" Holbrook for one day
only, Monday, Dec. 8th. Any
one needing reliable optical ser
vices, and who did not get to see
Dr. Swigert when here three
weeks ago, can do so this time.
Jolbrook Hotel, Monday, Dec 8
Swigert Bros. Optical Co.
EstaLEshed u Arizona 1902
1550 California Street, Denver, Colo.
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WEEKLY PROGRAM
PRICES
15 and 30 cents
-Sunday, Nov. 30th
MAY ALLISON, in
"HER INSPIRATION"
- Drew Comedy
Tuesday, December 2d
11th Episode
"'THE RED GLOVE"
Two réel Western entitled
"GUN IkW
Ford Weekly. -
Wednesday, Dec. 3d.
LOUIS BENNISON. in
"SANDY BURKE U BAR U"
One reel Vod-a-vil
Thursday, Dec. 4th.
PRISCELLA DEAN, in
"PRETTY SMOOTH"
Barton Holmes Travelogue
Friday. Dec. 5th.
PAULINE FREDERICKS, in
"OUT OF THE SHADOW"
Two reel Sennett Comedy
Saturday, Dec. 6th.
FRED STONE, in
"UNDER THE TOP"
One reel Cartoon.
Sunday, Dec. 7th
Extra Special Super Feature
"AUCTION OF SOULS"
Matinee at 3:30 p. m.
Two niht shos 7 and 9
A Good
Cough Medicine
Children
tor
Mrs. J. W. Phillips, Redon,
Ga., phoned to J. M. Floyd, the
merchant there-for a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
and said she had bought a bottle
of it at his store recently and
that it was doing her children so
much good that she wanted to
keep ud the treatment You will
find nothing better for coughs
and colds in children or for your
self. It keeps the ceu-gh loose,
expectoration easy and soon frees
the system from the cold. Ad y
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HOLBROOK, ARIZONA
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FELL TO ROOSEVELT'S SPEAR
Big Devilfish a Victim of the Colonel's
Love of Sport, Either on
Sea or Land.
The fame of the late CoL Theodore
Roosevelt as a big-game hunter Is well
known, but he was equally as adept at
killing big flsh of the sea, irscording to
Russell J. Coles, noted big-fish killer.
Attracted by one of Coles', articles
about killing the devilfish, the colonel
appealed to him for Instruction in the
art. After taking several land lessons,
using a rpear with whichj he saw an
African kill a lion, he finally became
expert, and Mr. Coles formed a party
to hunt the devilfish off the coast of
Florida, in Punta Gorda. March 25
1917. There the colonel killed fes first
devilfish, hitting the buge creature,
which weighed many tons, just two
Inches from the spot Indicated on a
drawing by Coles, and driving the
spear two feet four inches through the
heaviest and boniest structure ofsthe
flsh. The colonel was standing on the
cab of a small boat traveling nine miles
an hour, and the fish was coming to
ward the boat at the rate of 15 or 18
miles an hour, swimming about four
or six feet under water. Had the
colonel, missed his aim the flsh would
have been able, with one of its side
fins, to upset the boat and drown the
fishermen. An hour after his
first
catch the colonel killed a second devil
fish, which was the second largest
devilfish ever killed. Mr. Coles is a
scientist who has hunted devilfish for
more than 20 years.
Auberge du Pigeon.
Strasbourg, French once more, is
unfolding, like a rose to the sun. The
old life has begun again, as it was
lived before the Interruption in 1871.
Houses are throwing open their shut
ters and hanging up once familiar
signs. One of them, the Pigeon Inn,
one of the glories of Strasbourg with
its painted wood carvings, its old
windows and curious ship decorations,
has reopened its doors. It was built
in 1331 and began its career under the
sign of "Au Pigeon." Then later the
sign changed to "Au Pigeon Blanc"
and for two centuries the inn was the
rendezvous of the university students.
After 1870 the sign was taken down.
the Pigeon Blanc's hospitality ceased
and the house became the headquar
ters of a Roman Catholic society. The
days of its ecclesiastical Importance
are happily over. The Inn becomes
the "Pigeon Blnnc" once more, open
ing a new chapter of its long history
under true Alsatian management-
Chrlstlan Science Monitor.
Safe.
On the occasion of a slight fire and
much smoke behind the curtain a
vaudeville manager was trying, unsuc
cessfully, by suave, assuring state
ments to quell an Incipient panic In
the audience. A leading comedian
rushed out and, pointing a finger of
scorn at the manager, appealed to the j
audience thus : "Sure, do you think
he would be such a fool as to stop
here if there were any danger?"
GOT INSPIRATION AT PIANO
Immortal Melodies Evolved by Masters
While Their Fingers "Wandered
Idly Over the Keys."
A story is told of Mendelssohn to
the effect that the charming arpeggio
figure in the Spring song of his "Song
Without Words," came to him on a
day when he played with his children
at the piano, and allowed tlieiu to
catch his hands, as they wandered
over the keys ; and it is u fact that
many of our most beautiful musical
productions owe their origin to extem
porizing on the piano. -
This is not to be wondered at for
many of our greatest musicians have
poured out their hetift'0 deepest feel
ings as their fingers have flitted, in a
desultory fashion, over the keys, pro
ducing corresponding notes and chorda
to their ever-changing moods; finding
at the keyboard a vent for their in
most thoughts and desires, often meet
ing with that triumphant respond that
time can never diminish.
We can see in the works of Chopin
and Schumann a proof that in the
piano is the origin, of many of their
most beautiful productions, while in
the great symphonies of the old mas
ters their shape, form, and color have
been gained at the piano where their
fingers "wandered idly over the noisy
keys."
This Is not so hard to understand
when we consider that the method of
composing a melody is, in essence, but
the picking out nnd assimilating some
melodic tune to which the harmony Is
afterward added. From this primitive
Instinct is ultimately produced the im
mortal tone pictures of the great mu
sicians.
FISH LIAR WORKS OVERTIME
Here Is One Concerning a Salt Her-
ring That Is Challenge to the
Imaginative.
That is the worst of those fih sto
ries. Somebody always coinca alpn;
with a better one.
Recently the Evening News told the
V. A. D.'s story of the frozen fih that
came to Ufe in the cooking pot. Then
a correspondent a naval officer, It
should be said easily puts that to
shame.
"An Interesting experiment was
tried some little time ago," he writes
to us, "with an ordinary herring.
"The fish was put into a large bowl
of salt water and every day a small
quantity of water was removed and
an equal quantity of 'freh' was sub
stituted, until eventually the flsh lived
and thrived In purely fresh water.
"The owner was so pleased with the
success of his experiment that he then
tried removing a very small quantity
of water daily until the bowl was
empty, and found that the herring did
excellently, entirely without water.
and as he was so lively In the empty
bovyl he had to put him in a cage.
"Here he lived happily, hopping
from perch to perch just like a bird,
until one day some sudden noise star
tled him and he fell Into his water
trough and was drowned!"
Words and Music
The value of words'is going up, at
lenst in Rouen. There the courts
have decided that the artistic values
of the words and music of a poem are
equal. 'At present in the United
States and Canada the writer of the
words of a song gets only a pittance
of the royalties or a small sum out
right at the start. In England many
of the most popular ballads have
brought their "writers no more than
two or three guineas, while the com
poser goes on cashing his royalty
checks for years. What measure pub
lishers apply to the two arts thus
combined to make words so much less
valuable than music fs rather hard to
understand. Verse writers might well
send a little gold medal to the Just-
minded citizens of Rouen who have
ruled it a false one. . i
Unusual Methods Used;
With the end of the war have come
many revelations of the unusual meth
ods used by the Germans-' to' spread
their harmful propaganda in the coun
tries arrayed against the central pow
ers, ana of the clever work wnicn
often frustrated their well-laid plans
In one case, mentioned in Popular Me
chanics Magazine, what appeared to
be an old and worn copy of the works
of Homer proved to be a volume of
attacks on British rule In India. Onlj
the first few pages of the hook were
" printed with the words of the ancient
poet. The remainder, though in Greek
type like the beginning, was filled with
the diatribe. The volume was ad
dressed to an educated Hindu capable
of translating the Greek Into an In
dian dialect.
Costly Parking Space.
Tired of being taken into court by
trafile policemen, because at the time
he goes to business ins car nas to ds
parked in the street, as day s-toiage is
at a premium and access toa pub
lie garage nt those hours is difficult,
PhillD Rosenbach, art connoisseur of
Philadelphia, has just paid $10,000 foi
a stable property which he will con
vert into a private garage for himself.
It is neaij his place of business.
Babies More Plentiful Than Houses.
"It is easier to find a -baby than" a
house in Sydney now," reports the
Bulletin of that Australian city, con
tinuing thusly: "Writer knows a
young bride who went to live with her
mother pending the dscovery of a
suitable residence. She has two in
fants now and is still living with her
mother."
Sacrifice.
Love means sacrifice and apprecia
tion. And the man who thinks he
loves and has not the spirit of sacrifice j
only Is administering to his self-grati
fication. AU of the big emotions have
imvc ,
coupled with their expression an under-
lying element of capacity for repres
sion. It is the ability to give or with
hold that makes their true value, and
since love Is the greatest of all these
then the greater should be the power
of sacrifice. Alden.
HAVE SIMILAR FINGER MARKS
Important Discovery Made by Cali
fornia Professor as to Peculiarities
of Family Groups.
Frof. J. A. Larson, instructor of
physiology In the University of Cali
fornia, announced a new discovery In
connection with finger prints which Is
likely to have a remarkable Influence
on many important enses that con
cern the law courts of California.
Briefly, Professor Larson's discovery
indicates that a similarity of finger
prints among members of a family is
sufficiently marked to enable scientists
to trace family groups and determine
positively whether a given individual
is really a member of the family to
which he claims relationship.
The importance of the discovery In
probate cases such as the Slingsby case
Is obvious.
Should Dr. Larson's new discovery
be accepted by law and science, the
Slingsby decision may be reversed, as
well as many other analogous cases.
Dr. Larson's Investigations began in
1913 at the Boston university.
"Since that time I have examined
prints of members of approximately
100 families," he said, "and I am satis
fied in my own mind that such a
means of Identification is possible. I
am preparing detailed reports of my
work now in order that science may
be benefited by my discovery. Before
I complete this, however, I expect to
investigate the prints of fifteen or
twenty additional families so as to re
move all doubt as to the accuracy of
my discovery." San Francisco Chron
icle. AMBER FORMED BENEATH SEA
Natural Resin of Pines Turned Into
Precious Material by the Action
of the Elements. .
The world's supply of amber, that
rare and therefore precious substance,
the "gold of the north," as it has been
called, comes from the coast of Sam-
land in the eastern Prussian penin
sula, between the towns of Burstrort
and Paimnicken, and here the shafts
of a famous mine run out under the
Baltic and the miners are actually
working under water. Ages ago the
country was a land of pine forests
which the ocean overwhelmed : the
pine trees vanished beneath the sur
face of the sea, and then, century by
century, the wood became fossilized
and the natural resin of the pines was
turned into amber. Millions of years
were needed to transform the resin
Into amber, and the search for amber
has developed romantic and picturesque
episodes like those that have become
part- and parcel of the' story of gold
and diamonds. An amber mine, how
ever, is not necessarily under water.
and there is an open-air mine at Paim
nicken where amber is dug for in much
the same way as diamonds are sought
in the mines of Kimberley. In nor
mal times this one mine provides oc
cupation for about 3,000 amber
seekers.
Our Own Masters.
We have been told that America Is to
save the world and rescue civilization
from dissolution, but we must do it
In our way ; in the way that has made
us, in a little more than a century,
the most unified, the most virile, and
the most potent single power In the
world. And when we ask ourselves
what it is that has" given us this unity,
this virility, and this potency, the an
swer is, that we have founded this
nation upon principles of law, and
upon the guarantees of individual
rights under the law. That is our
great contribution, to civilization ; and
If we are to be of use to other nations,
old or new, our first thought must be
to remain our own masters, to pre
serve our independence, to control our
own forces as a nation by our own
laws, and to protect our heritage of
organized liberty from any form of
detraction or perversion. David
Jayne Hill in the South American Re
view.
Giant Warrior of Middle Ages.
The pride and magnificence that
played their part in the days of chiv
alry can hardly -have a better illus
tration than the suit of equestrian
armor which has recently. been placed
on exhibition in the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, In New York city. Sieut
Jacques Gourdon de Genouilhac wore
the suit in the sixteenth century, and
Sieur Jacques was an uncommonly
large nnd powerful warrior, who serv
ed under Louis XH. and Francis I. of
France. As may be deduced from their
armor, the knights of the period were
not noticeably large men, and Sieur
Jacques must have seemed a veritable
giant, for a six-foot attendant at the
museum has tried on his armor and Is
said to have "merely rattled around
An it."
Sea Moss.
Owing to the war the supply or "sea
moss, of which several hundred
thousand pounds, valued at almost
$50,000, have been Imported annually,
for the most part from France and
Germany, has virtually come to an
end. Sea moss (not seaweed) Is the
popular name of several kinds of
small marine animals that grow in
colonies of a branching, plantlike form.
Their commercial value arises from
their having a horny skeleton which
preserves the general plantlike shape i
of the growth.
Difference of Custom.
'In old England people 6howed their
excitement by saying 'Zounds!'"
"And in New Jersey the commuters
6ay 'Zones!'"
In Death Valley.
Death valley la a narrow area be
tween the Panamlnt and Funeral
mountains in California. It Is tra
versed by the Amargora river, which
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The level of the valley is covered with
salt supposed to have been brought
by the torrents from the surrounding
desert and left on the evaporation of
the water. Death valley Is said to be
the hottest and driest place In toe
Vuum State
DELIGHT 111 GUESTS
Pleasing Trait of Household Help
in Palestine.
Presence of Company to Dinner
Taken as a Compliment Native
Woman's Amusing Confes
sion of Vanity.
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Palestine is one place In the world
which has no "servant problem," ac
cording to Miss Evangeline Metheny
of Beaver Falls, Pa Just returned
from Red Cross service in the Holy
Land.
"The servants In Palestine," says
Miss Metheny, who has lived there
most of her life, "are a different 6et
entirely from the servants we have
here in America. They make Jtheir
services personal ; their interest In
their employer's affairs is personal,
whereas the American servant regards
It Impersonally.
"In Palestine, If I were to tell my
house servants that there would be
ten people in for dinner, they would
be delighted. It would be a matter of
personal pride with them that their
dinner was the best to be bad, and
their service, too. They would be
happy at the thought of working for
a mistress who had so many friends
that she could get together ten at one
time. There would be no sulky look
or actions at the extra work; every
servant would co-operate and the din
ner would go off grandly.
"Here the mention of an extra guest
or two creates a feeling of resent
ment I know people who do not dare
to Invite a dinner guest until they
have obtained permission from their
cooks. Cooks In Palestine consider
extra guests a compliment to their
art. The servants In Palestine would
ten times rather work for Americans
than for the native population. The
reason is not alone that we will pay
higher wages we treat them better.
For one thing, American women do
not swear at them, and native women
do. They call down every kind of
curse on the servant's eyes, and his
children, and his grandchildren; they
say the most untranslatable things as
a matter of course. It Is not In the
least unusual, it is quite au fait, for
an Arab woman to swear bo."
Servants In Palestine may be differ
ent, but a woman is a woman the world
over, Miss Metheny says with Kipling
and other authorities.
"Once in a railroad train," she says,
"I was sitting in the same compart
ment with an old native woman. In
the East there are separate carriages
for men and women. In our coach
there was a particularly pretty girl,
and from time to time a young Eng
lish or American man passed through,
watching her. My old woman was
kneeliDg on the seat with her 6hoes
off, praying. In order to pray toward
Mecca she had to kneel crosswise on
the narrow seat, and the rite of
bumping -her head on the floor sev
eral times in each prayer' was an
acrobatic feat tinder such circum
stances.' Every time a young man
came Into the carriage she had to
struggle for balance while she pulled
her veil down over her face. Finally
she spoke to one, "My son," she said,
"do you not know that you have no
right In here with the protected ones"
(women) ?
He apologized, and she raised her
veil when he went out
Ton know," she said to me In Ara
bic, "if I had any teeth left I would
not pull down my velL I only do It
that people will think there Is a nice
face behind It."
In Practice.
"I see your wife has one of those
hobble skirts."
"She was early in the game. I'm go
ing to make some money this sum
mer." "How?"
"By taking her around the picnic cir
cuit She ought to win first coin In
any sack race for ladies." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Great Expectations.
A certain hard-boiled lieutenant
called in a : sergeant to letter his
locker. After thinking it over, he
said: "Ton might leave the lieuten
ant off as I expect to be made cap
tain shortly."
"Why not," Innocently suggested the
sergeant "leave a space between the
lieutenant and your first name, so
you could .Insert 'Col.'?" Booster.
The Poet's Corner.
Visitor Who caused that unsightly
fence to be put up In this beautiful
neighborhood?
. "Oh, that Is the home of John
Sweetsinger, the famous' portrayer of
the poetry of child life, author of
'Songs of Childhood' and 'Prattling
Voices at Twilight" He had the fence
built to keep out the neighbors' chil
dren." Life.
A Surmise.
JWhat's the hubbub in the Inside of
fice?
"The old man Is savage today and
the fool office boy let In an agent with
a Ufe of Cromwell."
"Well?"
"I suppose he Is selling his life
dearly." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Evolution.
"Do you believe in the theory of
evolution?"
"I wouldn'i venture to contradict
It," - replied young Mrs. Torklna.
"Charley dear Is always telling about
animals that start as race horses and
finish as dogs."
The Tie That Bound.
Lawyer "On what grounds, madam.
do yon wish a divorce from your hus
band?" Client "Why, I married him
for his money, and he has lost every
thing."
No Longer Funny.-
As a general thing, when a woman
asks her husband not to make an ex
hibition of himself It Is a sign that
she baa got over the Idea that be 1
cuta.